Thread regarding Dream Center Education Holdings, LLC (DCEH) layoffs

As someone who worked at MIU (I left the school and the area earlier this year)... the student numbers aren't much better than AiFL's and AiFL closed in 2018. Most AiFL students did not transfer to MIU but to BC and a few others including Lynn.

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2019 will see the closure of nearly everyone of these campuses. The California schools will remain open but will continue their transition to the Argosy brand - the College of Creative Arts and Design. For the sake of argument, it is the end of the AI system in California. Bu the school itself and employees will still have jobs and the students will be able to continue their education.

AiO will remain open but will transition under the Agosy brand. They will essentially be recruiting for Argosy's College of Creative Arts and Design.

Pittsburgh stays open in 2019. But not much longer than that. Las Vegas is a conundrum and will stay open in 2019 while DOE gets its sh-- together.

Remaining schools begin the transition to Argosy. Accreditation problems are handled on a one-off basis and schools that can't transfer accreditation to WASC close in 2019. This will be a great majority of the schools and almost certainly includes MIU and it's branches in Tampa, Dallas; Atlanta and its branch in Virginia Beach; and Houston and its branches in Austin and San Antonio.

Happy New Year!

“E-learning has yet to find a way to truly imitate that (working collaboratively in a traditional classroom)” is not accurate this can be done online and done successfully.

Online works and students/graduates are successful (depends on the major of course).

Although mostly asynchronous the student/faculty interaction is productive and relationships are built, trust is built, in some majors and some professors this relationship with students is lasting over decades.

Granted, many of the online classes and format are lousy, and some faculty just go with garbage classes. True professors and educators, regardless of the lousy way the classes are structured work around the incompetence of the curriculum team and teach, just like they would in a “traditional” classroom.

The curriculum team and those creating the new format for classes should be replaced so online can be more successful.

I think just AiO and the few schools needed to keep AiO open (Pittsburgh, California, etc).

Students naturally learn from one another while solving problems and working collaboratively in a traditional classroom, especially in the arts. They’re validated and encouraged by face-to-face time with a teacher that doesn’t come from a pre-recorded video or chat room.

E-learning has yet to find a way to truly imitate that. While e-learning won’t replace traditional classrooms, it has changed the way we know them today. E-learning tools provide educators and students with access to resources they couldn’t have had otherwise, no matter their status or location. But even though e-learning has become an education equalizer, it’s still not a replacement for the traditional classroom. Sure, the technology is advancing, but it’s not flawless. Just like any new, burgeoning innovation, e-learning faces its own challenges in the hands of a caring provider. EDMC and DCEH used e-learning as a way to cut costs and make money, not to better service students.

AIO is a cash cow but it’s a joke.

JC is a snake

Kind of sad so many were bashing AiO a few months back, but online ed is the future, and the bread and butter of DCEH. There are more students at AiO than all of the campuses put together.

One of the Cali schools will have to survive as well to house AiO.

This is just a theory of course. The design degree programs of Ai are low income careers, they’re not a necessity to society. All Ais may be just a memory by March 2019.

Merry Christmas!!!